pixie vs joker

pixie

A small, fast, native lisp with "magical" powers (by pixie-lang)

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joker

Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter. (by candid82)

Clojure Linter Golang Interpreter

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pixie		joker
	Project
2	Mentions	18
2,330	Stars	1,582
0.0%	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	7.3
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Python	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Eclipse Public License 1.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pixie

Posts with mentions or reviews of pixie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-14.

Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2022
Why aren't transducer used as the building blocks for map and filter, etc?
1 project | /r/Clojure | 8 Feb 2022

joker

Posts with mentions or reviews of joker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.

Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go (Spotted this on HackerNews and wanted to share it here :D )
1 project | /r/Clojure | 29 May 2023
Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 29 May 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 May 2023
Are there smaller Clojure-esque Lisps available ?
3 projects | /r/lisp | 31 Mar 2023

There’s also joker. Haven’t used it but I’ve known about it for a while. Bills itself as a Clojure-like built with Go.
Looking for programming languages created with Go
23 projects | /r/golang | 6 Nov 2022

There is also joker. A Clojure interpreter written in Go.
Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2022
Joker: Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2022
ClojureDart is live!
2 projects | /r/Clojure | 15 Apr 2022

See Joker perhaps: https://github.com/candid82/joker
Coast on Clojure
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2022
Show HN: Gfun – Lisp 4 Go
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2022

Was there something about Joker [0] that you didn't find suitable?
[0] - https://github.com/candid82/joker

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pixie and joker you can also consider the following projects:

ulisp-zero - A pared-down version of uLisp for hackers.

babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

BuildYourOwnLisp - Learn C and build your own programming language in under 1000 lines of code!

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

quicklisp-projects - Metadata for projects tracked by Quicklisp.

graalvm-clojure - This project contains a set of "hello world" projects to verify which Clojure libraries do actually compile and produce native images under GraalVM.

lisp-in-go - A Common Lisp-like Lisp-1 in Go with TCO and partially hygienic macros

planck - Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL

lumo - Fast, cross-platform, standalone ClojureScript environment

Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

rich4clojure - Practice Clojure using Interactive Programming in your editor

awesome-clojure-likes - Curated list of Clojure-like programming languages.